Ishmael

"The sea rolls on; it rolls onward still, carrying my message down and down into the depths."

"Some invisible power seemed to be driving him on."

"There is a grandeur about the contemplation of that leviathan."

"I try the lost child's charity of the sea"

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian"

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness"

"Call me Ishmael"

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth"

"The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last"

"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard"

"For there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men"

"I feel as a lost soul upon an unfathomed waste and solitude"

"Madness is to be alive and to see"

"The riches of the whale are as yet untold"

"I am bound to that fisherman's hammer-headed shark"

"In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich"

"Once more the try-works were fiercely stoked; the long rows of casks began loading"

"Some men are born with the eternal worm that gnaws within them"

"Where the great sun shines, there is also the greatest shadow"

"Though I am bound in flesh, my spirituality soars"

"The whale, as he swims, is not one and the same whale"

"I stand alone here upon the sea"

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"Call me Ishmael."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

"The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last."

"A man may his own distress by sympathy with kin."

"I feel safer on this sea than on the land."

"Nor is it any advantage that for the most this earthly chase is attended by such a melancholy."